Health Care

Nashville is home to a diverse health care cluster with leaders in a number of industry niches that impact the health care landscape locally, nationally and internationally. More than 250 health care companies are headquartered in the Nashville region, making health care the region's largest industry. Sixteen publicly traded health care companies call Nashville home, with combined employment of nearly 400,000 and $70 billion in global revenue. The health care industry is also the region's largest and fastest-growing employer, directly employing 210,000.

“Why is Nashville the Silicon Valley of health care? I might ask you: Why wouldn’t it be? I don’t think there’s any other choice. It has the right people at the right time at the right place to solve the needs of health care in our ever-changing world.”

Partnership 2020 is Middle Tennessee's public/private economic development initiative
responsible for recruiting businesses to the region, facilitating expansions and
creating new jobs. We encourage firms who are relocating or expanding in the Middle
Tennessee area to use the services of these investor firms.